Patents by Inventor Kwang-Chun Lee

Kwang-Chun Lee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110128079
    Abstract: A multi-band power amplifier in a wireless communication system includes: a plurality of matching circuits connected in parallel to an output stage of the power amplifier and corresponding to a plurality of different operation frequencies, respectively; and a plurality of high-frequency amplifiers connected to the plurality of matching circuits, respectively. The plurality of high-frequency amplifiers are selectively operated depending on the operation frequencies. Each of the high-frequency amplifiers may include a plurality of stages. Each of the matching circuits may include a high-frequency transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Taek-Jin HWANG, Kwang-Chun LEE
  • Patent number: 7929639
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for compensating a radio frequency distortion caused by a sample/hold operation of a digital/analog converter in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system, and a method thereof. In a digital transmission system, an edge frequency signal of a transmission signal band is distorted by a sample/hold operation of a digital/analog converter such that a signal attenuation is generated at a frequency domain by a sync function having a zero point at a sample frequency of a transmission signal. In the present invention, the signal distortion may be compensated by multiplying a coefficient of an inverse sync function by a signal weight value at the frequency domain, and it may be compensated by using a single multiplier and a lookup table storing the coefficient of the inverse sync function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Ho Jung, Byung-Su Kang, Joon-Hyung Kim, Heon-Kook Kwon, Sung-Jun Lee, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 7911986
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring bi-directional radio channel with multiple antenna are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Heon-Kook Kwon, Kwang-Chun Lee, Hyun-Kyu Chung
  • Publication number: 20110063035
    Abstract: Provided is controlled-gain wideband feedback low-noise amplifier. The controlled-gain wideband feedback low-noise amplifier includes: a feedback amplifier configured to isolate an input signal and an output signal obtained by amplifying the input signal, feed back the output signal to the input signal to amplify wideband input signals, resonate a low-frequency band signal among the wideband input signals to amplify the low-frequency band signal among the wideband input signals, and be switched in accordance with a control signal to control an amplification gain of the low-frequency band signal among the wideband input signals; and a cascode amplifier configured to amplify a high-frequency band signal among the wideband signals inputted from the feedback amplifier, and be switched in accordance with a control signal to control an amplification gain of the high-frequency band signal among the wideband signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Bong-Hyuk PARK, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20110063026
    Abstract: A pre-distortion apparatus of a power amplifier includes: a pre-distortion unit configured to generate a pre-distorted signal of an input signal by calculating a magnitude of the input signal and outputting a complex correction coefficient corresponding to the calculated magnitude of the input signal, and provide the generated pre-distorted signal as an input of the power amplifier; and a complex correct coefficient update unit configured to generate an error signal by comparing an output signal of the power amplifier with the input signal and updating the complex correction coefficient to minimize a magnitude of the generated error signal, wherein the pre-distortion unit provides a constant bias value corresponding to the magnitude of the input signal as a bias of the power amplifier while updating the complex correction coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jae-Ho JUNG, Gweon-Do Jo, Young-Hoon Kim, Jung-Hoon Oh, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20110063030
    Abstract: A complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) variable gain amplifier includes: a cascode amplifier including a common source field effect transistor and a common gate field effect transistor in a cascode structure; a first current generation unit connected in parallel to a drain of the common gate field effect transistor and configured to vary transconductance of the cascode amplifier; a second current generation unit connected to a common source of the cascode amplifier and configured to control a bias current of the cascode amplifier; a current control unit configured to generate a current control signal for the first and second current generation units; and a load stage connected in series to a drain of the cascode amplifier and configured to output an output current, which is varied by the overall transconductance of the cascode amplifier, as a differential output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seunghyun JANG, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20110059707
    Abstract: In a wideband mobile communication system, a signal transmitting apparatus separates an envelope curve signal which is size information and a phase signal which is phase information from a signal to transmit, and compares the envelope curve signal with a predetermined voltage. The signal transmitting apparatus performs active bias control that amplifies and outputs an envelope curve signal according to different driving voltages based on a comparison result, and supplies a bias voltage to a power amplifier that amplifies a phase signal based on the amplified signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joon Hyung KIM, Kwang Chun LEE
  • Patent number: 7840200
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna matching device that varies a frequency bandwidth according to mobile communication services, and to a transceiver having the same. To this end, an exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a transceiver that varies a frequency band and a bandwidth according to required services in a mobile communication system, the transceiver including an antenna matching controller that generates a prescribed switch control signal according to a service requested by a user, an antenna variable matching unit that variably forms a matching circuit according to the switch control signal to be transmitted from the antenna matching controller and varies the frequency band and the bandwidth, an analog processing unit that processes a signal to be transmitted/received through the antenna variable matching unit, and a wideband antenna that transmits/receives a radio frequency according to the frequency band and the bandwidth set by the antenna variable matching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Byung-Su Kang, Jae-Ho Jung, Seong-Min Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 7817566
    Abstract: Provided is a wired Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) link tester. The wired link tester, includes: a simulating unit for constructing a wired link corresponding to a wireless link for a multiple-input multiple-output system and simulating wireless-link characteristics using each variable element located on the wired link; and a control means for prestoring a predetermined value of the variable element depending on the state change time and the number of the state changes and controlling the variable element according to the predetermined value of the variable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Jun Lee, Jae-Ho Jung, Hyeong-Geun Park, Seong-Min Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20100150262
    Abstract: Provided are a signal amplifying apparatus and method and a wireless transmitter using the same. The signal amplifier includes a polar coordinate converter configured to output an envelope signal and a phase signal by converting a signal to a polar coordinate, a multilevel quantizer configured to output a multilevel quantized signal by quantizing the envelope signal to multiple levels, an amplification state controller configured to control an amplification state using the multilevel quantized signal, and a power amplifier configured to amplify the phase signal according to the controlled amplification state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon-Hyung KIM, Kwang-Chun LEE, Gweon-Do JO, Jae-Ho JUNG
  • Publication number: 20100146021
    Abstract: A modular-3 calculation method for binary number includes: determining whether two 1s consecutive from MSB exist in a binary number, when a target value for modular-3 calculation is inputted, and generating a first binary number by substituting the two 1s with 0 whenever the consecutive two 1s exist; performing a modular-3 calculation on the first binary number; and determining the result of the modular-3 calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Gweon-Do Jo, Joon-Hyung Kim, Jae-Ho Jung, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20100135421
    Abstract: An apparatus for reducing PAPR (Peack to Average Power Ratio) in an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) system includes: an IFFT (Inverse Fast Fourier Transform) unit for performing an IFFT on an input data stream modulated using a specific constellation to generate time-domain signals; a time-domain clipping unit for performing a time-domain clipping on the time-domain signals at a clipping level determined by characteristics of the time-domain signals; an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) unit for performing an FFT on the clipped time-domain signals to generate frequency-domain signals; and a frequency-domain clipping unit for performing a frequency-domain clipping on the frequency-domain signals. The time-domain clipping reduces in the OFDM system, and the frequency-domain clipping reduces distortions generated by the time-domain clipping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicants: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Soongsil University Industry & Academy Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Jae-Ho Jung, Kwang Chun Lee, Sung Bin Im
  • Publication number: 20100136939
    Abstract: A gain control apparatus in a receiver of multiband OFDM system includes: an amplifier amplifying a received signal based on a first auto gain control signal; an analog-to-digital converter for converting the amplified signal into a digital signal; band reception signal extractor for extracting a signal of a desired reception band from the converted digital signal for each reception band, and controlling gain of the extracted signal according to a second auto gain control signal; a reception power detector for detecting a reception power value of whole band from the converted digital signal; and a multiband integration baseband processor for generating the first auto gain control signal by using the detected reception power value of the whole band, and generating the second auto gain control signal to be provided to the band reception signal extraction units, resource allocation information for each band and a reception power for each reception band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecomunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seong-Min Kim, Byung-Su Kang, Gweon-Do Jo, Jae-Ho Jung, Joon-Hyung Kim, Heon-Kook Kwon, Sung-Jun Lee, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20100128775
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and method for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a controller for receiving power control information of a baseband signal, deciding an output mode, and providing an output mode signal, a signal converter for receiving the baseband signal outputting a phase signal, and outputting an envelope signal when the output mode signal indicates a first output mode, a phase modulator for up-converting the phase signal, and an amplifier for combining the envelop signal and the up-converted phase signal for the first output mode and amplifying the combined signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Joon-Hyung KIM, Jae-Ho JUNG, Gweon-Do JO, Kwang-Chun LEE
  • Publication number: 20100118744
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless transceiver system for supporting a dual mode, and more particularly to a wireless transceiver system for supporting a dual mode that simultaneously supports the Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) method and the Time Division Duplex (TDD) method in a certain frequency band. The present system supports the FDD system conducting transmission and reception simultaneously by using different frequency bands for transmission and reception as well as the TDD system temporally alternating transmission and reception by using the common frequency band among an upper frequency band and a lower frequency band used in the FDD system as well as another frequency band adjacent thereto, thereby selectively supporting both of the two communication systems in a wireless transceiver system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicants: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Heon-Kook Kwon, Joon-Hyung Kim, Seong-Min Kim, Yun-Soo Ko, Jae-Ho Jung, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20100093301
    Abstract: A heterodyne receiver of a wireless communication system using an analog discrete-time signal processing is provided. The heterodyne receiver includes: a radio signal processing unit configured to extract a signal of a desired band from a received radio signal and convert the extracted signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal that is an integer multiple of a sample rate specified in a specification of the wireless communication system; a discrete-time signal processing unit configured to charge-sample the IF signal in unit of a predetermined time and perform an anti-aliasing filtering and a successive decimation on the charge-sampled signal, a final output rate according to the decimation being an integer multiple of the specified sample rate; and an analog-to-digital conversion unit configured to convert the successively-decimated analog signal into a digital signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Jun LEE, Seong-Min KIM, Taek-Jin HWANG, Kwang-Chun LEE
  • Publication number: 20100056083
    Abstract: There is provided to an RF calibration apparatus and method for a multi-antenna mobile communication system, which calibrates a phase error and gain error of an RF path by calculating the minimum value of a sum of an initialized reference signal and a comparison signal by a simple operation and controlling the phase value of a phase converter and the gain of a variable amplifier on the RF path, in calibrating the RF path of a multi-antenna mobile communication system of a TDD (Time Division Duplexing) type or FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Joon-Hyung Kim, Jae-Ho Jung, Heon-Kook Kwon, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 7671692
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for compensating carrier feedthrough in a quadrature modulation system. In order to suppress the carrier feedthrough, and minimize and compensate the carrier feedthrough, differences of baseband differential input DC voltages in an in-phase as well as a quadrature-phase are simultaneously adjusted to 0 or a certain slight voltage difference by a simple analog circuit. Therefore, it is possible to suppress carrier feedthrough using a simple analog type apparatus for compensating carrier feedthrough, and simply achieve an apparatus for carrier feedthrough using a variety of quadrature modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Heon Kook Kwon, Joon Hyung Kim, Byung Su Kang, Kwang Chun Lee
  • Publication number: 20100046386
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring bi-directional radio channel with multiple antenna are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTIT
    Inventors: Heon-Kook Kwon, Kwang-Chun Lee, Hyun-Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 7612618
    Abstract: Provided are a PLL apparatus for an OFDM system having variable channel band and an operating method thereof. The PLL apparatus includes a frequency divider for dividing an oscillating signal; a phase detector for detecting a phase difference between a reference signal and the divided oscillating signal from the frequency divider and outputting the phase difference signal; a variable loop filter for filtering a phase difference signal outputted from the phase detector; a voltage control oscillator for outputting the oscillator signal to the frequency divider according to the voltage control signal filtered from the variable loop filter; and a variable loop filter controller for varying a filtering band of the variable loop filter according to each of the channel bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Yun-Soo Ko, Seong-Min Kim, Kwang-Chun Lee